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With merit colleen hoover5/26/2023 ![]() Merit’s family includes her identical twin, Honor, her older brother, Utah, her younger half brother, Moby - yes, as in Dick - her father, Baranby, her stepmother, Victoria, and her biological mother, also named Victoria - Yeah. The protagonist of this novel, Merit, is a member of the Voss family - a family that has decidedly more members than the one in which I grew up. Given this almost academic interest in large families, it’s unsurprising that my interest was piqued by the discovery that Without Merit was less about one person - or one girl and one guy, as Colleen Hoover’s books tend to be - and, instead, essentially about a large family. ![]() How do they decide who gets to use the bathroom first in the morning? Is there an organized system, like a sign-up sheet? Or do they just Hunger Games that shit, pretty much ensuring that the youngest, weakest ones always get screwed? When there are tons of members - like, Dugger-level large - How do they even remember each other’s names? Given the petite nature of my childhood nuclear family, I remain brimming with questions regarding the functioning of large families. ![]()
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